I’m learning things way too fast.
Currently I am in the process of building a web app for my class at The Iron Yard. The app is a centralized place where the teacher can post assignments and we can post a link to our assignment and check to see if it is finished or not. It’s going great and it is working. However, I want it to do so much more.

This weekend I found myself making profile pages for each user. I’m not any good at design so it was challenging for me to try to tap into what little artistic vision I have. Partway through implementing the design, I kept wanting to work on other features and develop it so much further. I want to add a better search feature using Angular (still working on figuring it out), add a sort function for the assignments, add comments on each individual assignment a student posts, and so much more!

I have ideas galore on how to expand this to fit the needs for our class, but I don’t have enough time to implement them all. While studying and learning new skills every day, and researching what I need to do for the app. I find myself trying to prioritize what features I want to do. Do I take the least path of resistance and implement what would be easiest? Or do I study a language I haven’t used and try to work in this cool feature?

The good news is that I am having fun and want to do them all. Each feature is in its own a great challenge, and without challenges life is boring.